I just had to tune out an interview on YouTube with Tristan Snell plugging his new book “Taking Down Trump”. The thing that really turned me off was his assertion that the marks that the Trump Organization and Trump University screwed weren’t stupid people. Yes, stupidity and greed underlied every thing these people were motivated by. Quick rich scams are prevalent in society and people are suseptible to conspiracy theories because they’re uneducated suckers. These suckers fell for the con that there are secrets that the establisment doesn’t reveal, and for a few thousand, the conman will reveal them. Then it turns out, the “secrets” are readily available with an internet search.

The latest of these schemes is the “AI” craze. Children, Chat GPT is an extension of Elisa, a psychoanalyst program I was first introduced to in 1972, and has been around since the sixties. Sixty years of time has passed and at least Elisa didn’t dole out misinformation like Chat GPT does. And if you weren’t either lazy or stupid or both, the information Chat GPT divulges is readily accessable via a true search engine. Not those “AI” jokes so prevalent today. But the average person is a mark for unscrupulous operations parading as “progress” or “time-saving”.

Liberal media is afraid to address the fact that people are stupid and lazy. They are suseptible to unscrupulous operators because they don’t want to do the work that necessary to be successful. My side job is creating music, and I see lazy people all the time. They have an inflated sense of self-worth, and think that people are just supposed to flock to their attempts to make music. This is especially prevalent in hip-hop/rap music.

I’ve noticed that Zuckerberg’s Meta has continued its slide into the Far-Right sphere and that slide is accelerating. Increasingly Meta, including Facebook and InstaGram have been silencing speech that is even slightly left-wing and allowing conspiracy theorists and other right-wing nutcases free reign. Trolls have been given free reign on the platforms and reporting them is almost impossible.

Any criticism of the far right elicites a threat to muzzle dissent. This comment is an example:

IG warned me that language was against their TOS and might be flagged for deletion. But they continue to encourage trolls like this account that espouse right-wing inflammatory posts. This poster is so much a coward, his account has been marked “private”. Not surprising to me, righties are the epitome of the gutless  losers that hide in the anonymity of the web, with the connivance of garbage like Zuckerberg.

Here’s an example of a troll account on IG:

It’s not amusing that Zuckerberg supports slime like this. They’re unAmerican, race-baiting authoritarians.

More screwing around with Lisp derivatives has been my focus over the past month. This is a picture of my programming tab on my iPhone:

As you can’t see, there’s a couple of Lisp interpreters, a Clojurescript tool that’s quite limited, and apps for Scala and Haskell. That’s my limit for Lisp-like apps on iPhone. I really wish the Clojurescript tool had more functionality, I happen to be a fan of Clojure. I first was exposed to it back around 2010, I have an extremely dog-eared copy of “Programming Clojure”, which was published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I guess the book is now in a third edition, and I think it’s one of the better books on the subject.

It’s long past time to abandon Substack. Substack is no different from Twittr, a harbor for Nazis and other far-right agitators. All are determined to trade the US democracy for a totalitarian regime, with no more elections and military control. Most military and police are sympathizers for this kind of country. Fuck the Fascists!

Well one of my sound explorations was included in the compilation called Antihistamine 2023 on Bandcamp. Check it out.

Well , I misidentified the Lisp-like languages on my iOS devices. Here’s my folder of prgramming paraphernalia on my main iPhone:

MyLisp and cl-repl are Lisps, LispPad is a Scheme interpreter and Replete is a clojurescript interpreter.

The coolest thing I’ve found lately is the programming language Rust. Admittedly, it hasn’t been that recently, i decided to explore it in 2019. Other than being what I consider to be a C language without the pitfalls of C., it’s a rather non-remarkable language.

On the other hand, I still am a fan of functional languages. I was introduced to the functional language Lisp in 1972. I immediately felt a kinship. Lately I do more in Clojure and Haskell on more standard OSes. Tho I play with LispPad on my iOS devices. This is a common lisp dialect which is a joy to fool around with.

So far I’ve found some swift code that will do sha256. Next step is the figure out how to get that added to a Common Lisp interpreter that’s on iPhone. More to come…

This should be the first Objectnets.net blog post to federate to my new followers in the fediverse. We will see.

Well, I connected this blog with an ActivityPub plugin so supposedly the blog posts are now being distributed to the fediverse, Mastodon instances and all the other members of the fediverse like FireFish instances. All togerther, I have accounts on those other instances totalling about 6-7 accounts. Each account has a slightly different viewpoint, one is a replacement for my main Twitter account, a few others are almost completely related to my music endeavors, and one has also got a programming bent.

The main thing with this blog is that it won’t be exclusively about software development anymore.

The longer I do DoorDashing, the more I notice that the relationship is an abusive one. If DoorDash didn’t have drivers, they’d have no business. But their business model is to abuse the drivers until they either quit or they accept that DD’s profits are based on screwing the drivers out of as much money as they can. From what I can tell, DD keeps around 75% of the money they get from their customers (restaurants and other businesses) and drivers have to be content with $2.00 to $2.75 for pay and any tips that the end user deems to be fair. In the past two years, those tips have become scarcer and scarer. The median tip is now $2-3. So your total compensation for a delivery is about $4-5. And if you refuse to do a $2.00 delivery your ratings suffer because DD penalizes you because, in their eyes, you’re obligated to accept ALL deliveries. So much for independent contractor status, DD drivers are employees with NO benefits.

Read a post on one of my fediverse accounts about some interesting code that uses sha1 to do a kinda rot13 thing on text. The post didn’t have any code attached so I replied to the writer to get the Lisp code to do the transformation. This is what they sent me:

(ql:quickload :sha1) (defvar *syllables* '((#\0 . "ze") (#\1 . "wa") (#\2 . "tu") (#\3 . "ri") (#\4 . "fo") (#\5 . "fi") (#\6 . "si") (#\7 . "se") (#\8 . "ye") (#\9 . "ni") (#\A . "he") (#\B . "bi") (#\C . "ki") (#\D . "di") (#\E . "yi") (#\F . "fe"))) (defun shashify (str) (apply #'concatenate (cons 'string (loop for c across (sha1:sha1-hex str) collect (cdr (assoc c *syllables*))))))

Note that this is Common Lisp code, as opposed to other dialects. And WordPress doesn’t know how to display code anymore. I’m going to try to convert this into something I can run on my iPhone. Yes, there’s a few Lisp interpreters on iOS. More details later.